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Hi Chris,

I was thinking of creating a couple functions for working with structures to hopefully simplify things a bit. Would it be possible to allow the . character in variable names if it wouldn't conflict with other plans you may have for this character?

Struct.value := Please

The "." character was specifically reserved for possible use with structures or methods. To allow for these features in the future, it seems best not to allow "." as a generic character in variable names.

Does that mean that there are planned enhancements for using structures?

Not specifically, but since I already regret allowing question marks in variable names, it seems best to reserve it.

The question mark might still be "overloaded" someday as a ternary operator, which is a miniature "if-then" inside an expression. For example:

FoundPosition := InStr(Haystack, Needle, UseGlobalCaseSense ? GlobalCaseSense : LocalCaseSense)